Respite on the Spitalfields
Impera
2022
Duration: 6:42
Track number: 12
Times played live: 54
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
The album's closing track, lyrically inspired by Jack the Ripper and the terror that gripped Spitalfields. The song captures the psychological aftermath—people wondering when the next attack will come, unable to return to normalcy. Despite a deceptively uplifting tone, the lyric 'the king that we hailed was the Wizard of Oz' reveals the ultimate truth: the empire was an illusion, the leader a mirage, power itself a grand deception.
Lyrics
We are here in the after
Of a murderous crafter
The past...
Is spun like a yarn and mangled
With flesh and blood and bones
I wonder
Did no one hear the distant thunder?
The autumnal reaper
The stains of this creeper
...Will last
The shine and the sham entangled
Like salting earth with tears of Jesus
He sliced and diced our dreams to pieces
For the dreams that you dread
Can becomе just as real
As the blood that was shed
With thе slash of his steel
Now the street walking dead
Was quite a scene, wasn't it?
For the lost and mislead
Were promised seats by the pit
We will break away together
I will be the shadow
You will be the light
Nothing ever lasts forever
We will go softly into the night
We are leaving this city
So this is farewell
Goodbye Seven Sisters
And Saint Jezebel
The moon in the gutter
Has a story to tell
One day he will come back
From the bowels of hell
He appeared to ascend
So we all stood there in awe
Now we have to pretend
We did not see what we saw
When the curtain unveiled
To the sound of applause
For the king that we hailed
Was the Wizard of Oz
We will break away together
I will be the shadow
You will be the light
Nothing ever lasts forever
We will go softly into the night
Nothing ever lasts forever
We will go softly into the night
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